Hyper-converged storage is turning out to be the buzz phrase of the storage industry in 2015, one with as many confusing and contradictory definitions as there are vendors. In theory, the combining of server and storage tiers into a single entity should deliver better application performance and lower infrastructure costs. In practice, your mileage will vary.

Join us for this webinar where industry expert Jon Toigo – chairman and co-founder of the Data Management Institute – will help to identify key criteria for making the right infrastructure decision for your business. Mr. Toigo will offer his key criteria in selecting a hyper-converged infrastructure model and he will survey the offerings of leading vendors to identify the “gotchas,” trade-offs and lock-ins of each option so you find the best fit for your company.

If you run more then one solution when backing up and recovering your data it can be hard to keep track of which solution does what. Check out how our single solution can fill in all the gaps and make it less complicated to manage multiple solutions at one time.

The connected device has made our lives more mobile, efficient, flexible and easier to manage. Connected devices and apps help us with everything from fitness to managing our schedules and make music tailored to our current whim accessible and easy to play anywhere. Connected devices for our home such as thermostats, alarms and home automation, make managing our energy use simple and allow us to manage appliances and doors remotely. In the event of a problem they alert us so we can act wherever we are. Finally, the advantages of the connected device are making their way into our IT world.

The limitations, complexity and fragility of traditional storage are now being supplanted by cloud connected storage. This new model for file (unstructured data) storage combines the scalability, durability, flexibility and mobility of a cloud service with performance and security of a local NAS system. Join us to learn how this new model can empower collaboration across distant locations while making IT's life easier by eliminating costly problems such as backup, DR, distribution and replication associated with the typical storage stack.

The connected device has made our lives more mobile, efficient, flexible and easier to manage. Connected devices and apps help us with everything from fitness to managing our schedules and make music tailored to our current whim accessible and easy to play anywhere. Connected devices for our home such as thermostats, alarms and home automation, make managing our energy use simple and allow us to manage appliances and doors remotely. In the event of a problem they alert us so we can act wherever we are. Finally, the advantages of the connected device are making their way into our IT world.

The limitations, complexity and fragility of traditional storage are now being supplanted by cloud connected storage. This new model for file (unstructured data) storage combines the scalability, durability, flexibility and mobility of a cloud service with performance and security of a local NAS system. Join us to learn how this new model can empower collaboration across distant locations while making IT's life easier by eliminating costly problems such as backup, DR, distribution and replication associated with the typical storage stack.

Inflexible, constrained, locked in, dependent are all terms we hear used to talk about the IT solutions being used in today’s datacenters. Datacenters are complex with a variety of physical, virtual, and cloud platforms for both computing and storage. Solutions that promise to make a datacenter more manageable, often lock you in to specific platforms or singular processes.

Join this session with Andy Ebbs to learn about the top 10 technical capabilities needed to ensure that you are able to freely move your workloads to run on the best platform, and protect them wherever they are running.

The ability of public sector organizations to accomplish their missions depends on reliable connectivity. Now, more than ever, these network connections must be mobile, rugged, and secure – but most of all, they must be flexible.

At the federal, state, and local level, as well as at institutions of higher learning, the opportunities to gain efficiency and manage budgets through mobile connectivity are increasing exponentially. Cradlepoint enables the public sector to quickly implement networking solutions that are powerful, flexible, easy to manage, and easy to scale; without busting tight budgets.

Join us for a webinar to learn how Cradlepoint solutions make it easy for public sector organizations to adapt their networks to take advantage of 3G/4G LTE wireless to provide the strongest signal at the best price in any given location.

The “consumerization of IT” is largely represented by public cloud services. But when it comes to cloud file sync – a technology that is centered on storing, accessing, and sharing data – many businesses are taking pause at public hosting. In this BrightTALK exclusive webinar, learn why deploying cloud file sync in a private environment may be worth considering.

The “consumerization of IT” is largely represented by public cloud services. But when it comes to cloud file sync – a technology that is centered on storing, accessing, and sharing data – many businesses are taking pause at public hosting. In this BrightTALK exclusive webinar, learn why deploying cloud file sync in a private environment may be worth considering.

IRM is leading the debate on risk culture. Drawing upon the wealth of practical experience and expert knowledge across the institute, we have developed guidance for organisations wanting a greater understanding of their own risk culture and practical tools that can be applied to drive change.

As seen in the business press every day, embedding risk management into an organisation to the extent that it reliably makes a difference is a difficult task. To achieve this, boards must keep how to manage risks high on their agenda, and to continue asking themselves, whether they have the right culture, people and processes.

What do we mean by risk culture?

Risk culture is a term describing the values, beliefs, knowledge, attitudes and understanding about risk shared by a group of people with a common purpose, in particular the employees of an organisation. This applies to all organisations from private companies, public bodies, governments to not-for-profits.

What does a good risk culture look like?

An effective risk culture is one that enables and rewards individuals and groups for taking the right risks in an informed manner.

With over half of companies not feeling well enough prepared for an IT disaster according to recent research, Ian Daly of Plan B Disaster Recovery will be sharing his best practices on how to build a DR solution you can trust. In this webinar we’ll cover:

- What counts as an IT disaster?
- What are the common causes?
- How can you better prepare for an IT disaster?
- Testing – what should you be testing and how often?
- What level of reliability should you be striving to achieve?
- How to maintain trust in your disaster recovery solution

Changing IT needs and complex infrastructures require flexible and dynamic solutions to help you transition your environment. The release of Symantec™ Backup Exec 15 is the perfect time for you to review your backup and recovery infrastructure to meet these changing demands. Whether you are an existing Backup Exec customer or not, now is the time to upgrade to a reliable choice; the leading-edge offering for virtual, physical and cloud platforms.

Join us to understand how Backup Exec 15 provides the flexibility to protect confidently whatever your platform, technology or application need. Delivering the power to protect your information faster, restore what you need when you need it and the ease the time and burden of “doing backup.”

Software defined architectures are all the buzz, helping to start conversations about transforming customer data centers from cost centers into competitive advantages. But in today’s economy, no business can afford to stand still. And a business is only as agile as its IT organization allows. An agile data center and IT department can:

•Protect the infrastructure and easily recover if faults are found or predicted
•Control access to data while meeting compliance and regulatory requirements
•Deliver services quickly, resiliently, and cost-effectively

Join us on at 10am GMT on 16th April 2015 and learn how Symantec’s view of the “Agile Data Center” covers delivering the right resources in the right way to the users. Whilst bringing a broader view on how you can introduce critical solutions and new revenues around disruptive customer events.

Today, organisations of all sizes are undergoing a significant IT-driven transformation. IT environments have reached a point where complexity in existing backup and recovery infrastructures is often a vast and unwieldy mix of both physical and virtual servers, along with different hardware and software solutions. While information volumes are rising continually, backup windows shrink and IT must operate around the clock.

All of this creates challenges in the backup environment, making it both difficult and costly to manage backup and recovery holistically. Therefore, IT leadership is increasingly looking for better ways to protect their data. It is not just because existing backup solutions are broken (some are, some are legacy, some are point products, and others just aren’t scaling and/ or performing as their IT environments evolve) – but that’s not all of them. In many cases, IT leadership is just trying to improve what they are doing, often from a return-on-investment (ROI) perspective, not technical features.

In this webcast we address how you can modernise backup and recovery and gain financial advantages that contribute to an improved ROI.

Managing mission-critical applications? Laying the foundation for a private cloud? Or simply working to meet your enterprise’s day-to-day technical and business demands? All require an infrastructure that’s flexible yet highly available and resilient.

Follow this Webinar and learn how to:

• Ensure critical data, applications, and complete systems are protected in the case of a disaster
• Provide disaster recovery for production applications in virtual server environments
• Deliver Disaster Recovery as a Service to different cloud platforms
• Reduce the complexity of managing heterogeneous server and storage platforms
• Reduce the costs of building and managing disaster recovery infrastructure

Windows 2003’s support life is coming to an end and, come July 2015, you will no longer get the help and support you need to keep functions running. But what does this mean? How will this affect you? What can and should you do?

First, don’t panic! Second, join Barnaby Wood for this interactive webinar as he helps you to understand what this End of Support Life means, as well as identify areas of risk in your backup environment and provide an introduction to how you can get help to mitigate that risk, whether your choice is hardware and operating system upgrades, consolidation through server virtualization or continued use of Windows 2003

Backup Exec 2014 delivered significant changes to drive performance, efficiency and usability improvements across physical and virtual environments. Join this webcast to understand what those changes are in more detail and to learn about the features and settings that Symantec’s technical teams use in configuring environments.

After watching this webcast you will understand how to performance tune a Backup Exec environment and minimise data loss by protecting your data more frequently and recovering more effectively.

Symantec's data center portfolio is uniquely positioned to increase IT agility, thus helping customers realize the vision of an "Agile Data Center". Performance is a key element of agility. Considering the recent opinion by a leading storage vendor's CTO that "Tier-1 storage is now a capacity tier," it's time to evaluate whether your organization is investing resources in a storage infrastructure that cannot meet the flexibility and performance requirements of your critical applications

Attend this Session and to discover:

•How you can get Tier-0 performance at a Tier-3 price without putting your data at risk. Members of Symantec and Intel will demonstrate how Symantec Storage Foundation and Intel Solid State Devices can accentuate the value of direct-attached storage.

You are invited to attend this webinar to hear how the Backup Exec 2014 delivers powerful, flexible data protection and disaster recovery through a single, unified solution.

During this webinar we will introduce you to the benefits of Backup Exec 2014 including:
•Unified protection for virtual and physical environments
•Powerful and flexible backup and recovery with improved performance
•New platform and application support
•Robust user interface to monitor and manage all your jobs from a single view
•Faster upgrades and migration with minimal management
•Simplified licensing and enhanced usability

Also we will talk about Backup Appliances – integrated software and hardware solution that provides an easy, complete, and cost-effective backup of physical and virtual servers.

Symantec™ Disaster Recovery Orchestrator enables customer to manage and automate the takeover and failback of Microsoft Windows-based applications residing on either physical or virtual machines (VMs) to the Microsoft Azure cloud.

Join our webcast to find out how you can;
• Minimise upfront and ongoing costs associated with DR in the cloud
• Automate and simplify application takeovers and failbacks
• Create a world where disaster recovery for Windows applications is only a click away

Symantec™ Disaster Recovery Orchestrator enables customers to manage and automate the takeover and failback of Microsoft Windows-based applications residing on either physical or virtual machines (VMs) to the Microsoft Azure cloud.

Join our webcast to find out how your customers can;
• Minimise upfront and ongoing costs associated with DR in the cloud
• Automate and simplify application takeovers and failbacks
• Create a world where disaster recovery for Windows applications is only a click away

The SymCast webinars are a series of free, on-demand playback webinars designed to give you a 10 -15 minute introduction to Symantec solutions. Each webinar will focus on how Symantec solutions can address common customer challenges.

In this first webinar, learn how Backup Exec 2014 can help with the following:
•Scale to protect both physical and virtual infrastructures
•Efficiently backup and recover virtual platforms across VMware and HyperV
•Manage growing data volumes and reduce storage costs
•Simplify disaster recovery
•Flexibly backup to multiple storage platforms including disk, tape and cloud
•All with ease of management via the reintroduced job monitor and multi-server backup

Announcing the release of Backup Exec 2014, you are invited to attend this webinar to hear how the 2014 release delivers powerful, flexible data protection and disaster recovery through a single, unified solution. During this webinar we will introduce you to the benefits of Backup Exec 2014 including:
•Unified protection for virtual and physical environments
•Powerful and flexible backup and recovery with improved performance
•New platform and application support
•Robust user interface to monitor and manage all your jobs from a single view
•Faster upgrades and migration with minimal management
•Simplified licensing and enhanced usability